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Sunday, 17 March 2013

Macro Monday - Castlemaine Bricks

Castlemaine is an old gold town about 140 km Northwest of Melbourne. It one of these classic gold rush towns that built itself on sudden and abundant wealth - and has drifted into genteel decline ever since.

These days food manufacturing and tourism are important. We when there for a weekend there a (surprisingly long) while ago. Some of the buildings have the kind of grandeur which speaks of wealth in the past, and reuse in the present. It's now a place of cafes and galleries.

One of the things that caught my eye was the use of (presumably) local red brinks in many of the buildings. These seem to be a variable quality, and some have stood the test of time better than others.

We are planing another visit soon - which is what reminded me of these pictures.

You can find more macro images from around the world here at Macro Monday.

23 comments:

Well, it may be declining, but the town offers some wonderful photo opps! I guess that's similar to our huge plantations that were wealthy so long ago, but are now either decaying or preserved for tourists.